Reductionist lines of thinking have made countless predictions that have all been verified.
And even more that turned out to be wrong.
Granted. But they didn't turn out to be wrong for non-reductionist reasons; indeed, they were proven wrong within the context of reductionism, which might be even better proof of the usefulness of reductionism than the ideas it has gotten right.
ETA: I don't think reductionism is right; I don't think the concept of "right" can reasonably apply to reductionism, although certainly the concept of "wrong" could. It is a model of the universe, and one which is, at least with the present evidence, isomorphic with any accurate model of the universe.
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